OccupyGhana says it is heading back to court to challenge the Attorney-General's refusal to release a document on the ₵3.6m controversial bus branding deal.

A leading member of the pressure group, Ace Ankomah says this document contains the A-G’s recommendation that some key officials involved in the deal be prosecuted.

After initially declining disclosure, the A-G’s department caved in to pressure from legal actions demanding the release of all documents relating to the branding of 116 public buses. All the documents, except one, have been released.

These actions contained in a separate document was not released to the pressure group which is hungry for more details.

It will not hesitate to go to court to compel the Attorney-General to release this document it deems vital, the lawyer signaled.

According to Ace Ankomah, although it does not have a copy of the A-G’s recommendation, it has knowledge that the A-G had pushed for the prosecution of top government officials at the Transport Ministry and Public Procurement Authority.

The Chief Executive of the PPA Samuel Sellas Mensah also signed the approval letter permitting the Ministry to engage Smarttys.

Ace Anokmah revealed that Occupy Ghana will go to court to demand that the Attorney-General begin criminal prosecution of top officials in the deal. If the Attorney-General refuses the prosecute, she will be obliged by law to state the reasons why the tool of prosecution has been laid down.

Occupy Ghana says it will also go to court to demand that the contract be abrogated despite being already implemented.

He referred to the Government contract protection Act that stipulates that as much as three times the contract sum must be refunded in case an illegality has been established. Culpable individuals in the deal cannot also be imprisioned for 10 years.

Ace Ankomah says exacting full abrogation of the contract and punishment for corrupt officials is the way to go because “paying taxes is painful”.